To the Edge 
Subtitle: A Man, Death Valley, and the Mystery of Endurance
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: July 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780446526173
First sentence: At 4:30 A.M. on a Sunday in mid-June 1999, I was sitting on the shoulder of a two-lane road near Ellerbe, North Carolina, flat-assed on the blacktop, legs stretched out in front of me, staring into the dark woods that pressed up to the lip of the pavement.